Physics of complex systems

Abstract

This book was published in 1997 in the series “Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” and contains the lectures and contributions presented at the CXXXIV Course of Enrico Fermi School held 9–19 July 1996 in Varenna on Lake Como, Italy. The editors and the directors of the Course were F.Mallamace and H.E.Stanley. The Course focuses on a “state-of-the-art” level of modern problems in the physics of complex systems and provides both an overview of the field and a detailed examination of the main topics within the field that are currently of greatest interest to researchers.